Rick Wise
| Rick Wise | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: September 13, 1945 Jackson, Michigan |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 18, 1964, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| April 10, 1982, for the San Diego Padres | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 188–181 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.69 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,647 | ||
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Richard Charles "Rick" Wise (born September 13, 1945) is a former professional baseball pitcher. A right-hander, he played in Major League Baseball for 18 seasons (1964, 1966–82), primarily as a starting pitcher. He was the winning pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, considered by some to be the greatest Series game ever played.
Wise grew up in Portland, Oregon and led his Rose City Little League team to the Little League World Series in 1958, making him one of a handful of major league players to have played in both the Little League and Major League World Series. He attended Madison High School in Portland.
Wise was eighteen years of age when he debuted for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1964, his second professional season. His first major league win was in the second game of a doubleheader on June 21, beating the New York Mets 8–2. The first game that day was Jim Bunning's perfect game during that memorable season. Wise was the last of that 1964 Philadelphia Phillies team to be active in the major leagues, pitching 2 innings of relief (7th and 8th innings) against the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 10, 1982. He spent all of 1965 and the early part of 1966 with the Phillies' top minor league affiliate (the Arkansas Travelers in 1965 and the San Diego Padres in 1966) before making the majors for good.
He developed into a solid starter, winning 17 games with a 2.88 earned run average for a sub-.500 Phillies team in 1971. The highlight of Wise's Philadelphia career took place that year on June 23, when he no-hit the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium; only a sixth-inning walk to Dave Concepcion denied Wise what would have been the second perfect game in Phillies history. He also hit two home runs in the same game. Wise, Wes Ferrell (1931), Jim Tobin (1944), and Earl Wilson (1962) are the only no-hit pitchers to hit a home run in the same game. On August 28 against the San Francisco Giants, Wise also hit two home runs. On September 18 against the Chicago Cubs, he completed a string of retiring 32 batters in a row, four shy of Harvey Haddix's Major League record, also driving in the winning run in the 12th inning.
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